Hey - our frustration with existing solutions like Firebase was the primary reason we started Graphcool. We've written up a detailed breakdown of the main differences: https://www.graph.cool/docs/tutorials/graphql-vs-firebase-ch...

I would love to hear from other developers who have used both GraphQL and Firebase to see if there is any way we can make GraphQL an even better choice.

Nice. It would be cool to see a "kitchen sink" example project, similar to Firebase's Friendlypix, or something similar. Give people something to explore and hack on. I saw many good example projects, but nothing as full-featured.

https://github.com/firebase/friendlypix

IMO the biggest problem with Firebase is data modelling and querying. No relationships, very basic filtering capabilities, etc. That should be a deal breaker for any serious project.

I wrote this a couple of months back where I expand on that and other pain points:

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/firebase-the-great-the-meh-a...